The Frio Advanced features a black and red design which looks fantastic in my opinion. As you can see by the pictures below the fan blades are bright red, and the top of the cooler has a red accent to match.

If you paid attention to the features listed above, then you know the fans have PWM capabilities, and therefore have 4-Pin connectors. This is different from the original Frio, which used potentiometers to control fan speeds.

The Frio Advances also features the “Heatpipe Direct Touch” technology that many CPU cooler manufacturers are using now days. The theory is that having the heatpipe’s in direct contact with the CPU will quicken the time needed for heat to transfer up the pipe and be dissipated from the CPU, mostly due to the heat not having to transfer through a block before reaching the heatpipe.

If you are one who likes to swap out fans on a CPU cooler frequently, then you will love the fan mounting system on the Frio Advanced. In fact, you can have this thing stripped down to the bare fins in a matter of seconds.

There are release clips at the top of the cooler that only need a slight pull upwards to release the fan. Then simply grab the fan retention bracket on one side, and pull outward. Just that quick you have the Frio Advanced stripped down to its bones.

Thermaltake uses a revamped Power Logic PLA1202S12HH-LV fan that uses a bit larger blade, which coincides with the advertised 130mm fan size. Even though the blade size has increased, the hole pattern is identical to a 120mm fan. This is good news if you have a favorite 120mm fan you would like to use instead of the included fans. The fans are rated at 800 to 2000 Rpm at 88.77 CFM and at full throttle they are quite loud (44 dba per fan). Using the fan speed controls your motherboard probably has, the noise level can be made to be much more tolerable.